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just to keep
tomatoes
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October
16,
America
pays tribute to them.
• The walls of Jericho had been built and rebuilt
many
times
when
Joshua
and was
the created
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her father’s birthday. Her father also happened
people shouted and the walls fell. Three major
to be her boss at the time. Nevertheless, she felt
archaeological expeditions have uncovered
that bosses in general were underappreciated,
evidence supporting the event.

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• Wall Street in New York City really did begin
department; they’d be responsible for any poor
as
a wall! In the 1600s, Dutch settlers built
performers.
a defensive wall to protect themselves from
• Hallmark started selling Boss Day cards in
a possible British attack. The wall was later
1979. While
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The longest manmade structure in the world
Bernard E. Bee declared, “There is Jackson
was built over a period of 2,000 years. It was
September 24 - September 30, 2009
Tidbits
of Glenrock, Douglas & Wheatland standing like a stone wall.”
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started in the Qin Dynasty (221-206 B.C.) but
• The Western Wall in Jerusalem is also called
most
major construction
was during the Ming
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Quarter
2009
the “Wailing” Wall. It is considered the holiest
• Galveston, Texas was a prominent city in the
Dynasty (1388-1644 A.D.). Hiking the wall
Week 40
shrine of the Jewish world. It is part of the
late 1880s with a busy port for cotton and
allows
you to feel ancient history under your
other exports as well as immigration. It was the
retaining wall supporting the original temple
Sept.
27 - THE
Oct. 3WALL! (continued):
feet! OFF
“Wall Street of the South.” Its industrial and
built Quarter
by King 2009
Herod in 20 B.C. There were
4th
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residential growth changed when a hurricane
• Wall Drug is not a historic or defensive wall…
decimated the area in 1900. From 1902-1904 a
massive seawall was constructed. At that time
it was 3.3 miles (5.3 km) long. Today it is 10
miles (16 km) long, approximately 17 feet (5.2
m) high and 16 feet (4.9 m) thick at its base.
Waves topped the seawall causing extensive
damage when Hurricane Ike hit the area on
September 12, 2008, forcing the first major
repairs to the seawall in its 105 year history.
Galveston is now open for business!

but is historical in its own rite! More than
2.2 million visitors a year stop at the gigantic
shopping experience on Interstate 90 in Wall,
South Dakota. It is 77,000 square feet (app.
7153 square meters) and claims its impetus for
growth was signs offering free ice water.
• Have you heard of the “Green Monster?” It is
the nickname for the 37 foot 2 inch tall (11.3
meters) left field wall at Boston’s Fenway
Park. Baseball fans are surely aware of this
famous landmark. In early days it was called
“The Wall.”

• “Wall Street” vs. “Main Street” are terms used
to distinguish big business or wealthy interests
from small business or middle class.
• Vancouver, BC has a seawall around the city’s
first park which is one of its major tourist
attractions. Stanley Park is 1,000 acres (400
hectares) of natural bliss. The seawall was
started in 1917 for erosion control and it was
not until 1980 that it became a fully completed
paved loop. The seawall around the park is
5.4 miles (9 km) and part of the seaside path
system.
• The Great Wall of China is approximately 5,000
miles (8046 kilometers) long. It consists of
many walls that were connected in an attempt
to protect China from Mongolian invaders.
The longest manmade structure in the world
was built over a period of 2,000 years. It was
started in the Qin Dynasty (221-206 B.C.) but
most major construction was during the Ming
Dynasty (1388-1644 A.D.). Hiking the wall
allows you to feel ancient history under your
feet!

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Sept. 27 - Oct. 3
the wall. In 1967, the Six-Day War gave new
access to the wall. Written prayers are placed
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in cracks in the wall.

• Following a 1995 mudslide onto the town
of La Conchita, California, Ventura County
spent $450,000 to construct a retaining wall
for protection against future mudslides. A
second mudslide in 2005 proved the wall to
be insufficient as cascading mud and rock
overcame it. La Conchita is in a beautiful area
near Santa Barbara, but may be a little too
precarious for most of us!
• At the first Battle of Bull Run, in the U.S. Civil
War, on July 21, 1861, General Thomas J.
Jackson was nicknamed “Stonewall.” General
Bernard E. Bee declared, “There is Jackson
standing like a stone wall.”
• The Western Wall in Jerusalem is also called
the “Wailing” Wall. It is considered the holiest
shrine of the Jewish world. It is part of the
retaining wall supporting the original temple
built by King Herod in 20 B.C. There were
times in early history as well as from 19481967 that Jews were not permitted to visit
the wall. In 1967, the Six-Day War gave new
access to the wall. Written prayers are placed
in cracks in the wall.

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September 24 - September 30, 2009

by David Uffington

Winterizing Programs Save on
Heating Costs
Winter weatherizing programs offer a lowcost or free way to make fixes to your home
that can add up to large savings on heating
fuel. Here are some ways to find help:
• Call your local social services for referrals to
programs. Even if you don’t get any services
from them, they’ll know how to contact
county or state programs or can refer you
to classes you can take. Contact your utility
or fuel company. Often it will do free “leak
checks” to help you identify problems in
your home.
• If the area where you live is even slightly
rural, consider calling Rural Development, a
U.S. Department of Agriculture program. If
your weatherizing goals are serious enough
to fall under the category of actual repairs,
you might qualify for a low-interest loan or
grant. To contact Rural Development and
get the number for your state branch, call 1800-670-6553.
• The Department of Energy has a
weatherizing help program that’s run
through individual states. Go to www.energy.
gov and click on General Information, then
Weatherization Assistance Program. In the
left column you’ll see a link to State Contacts.
If you qualify as low income, you’ll receive a
whole-house energy efficiency audit as a first
step, as well as a safety check.
Whether you sign up for help through a
program or do the work yourself, the mains
goals are to keep cold air out. At the very
minimum: Use a caulking gun to seal around
windows. Check your hardware store for
shrinkable clear plastic sheets that go on the
inside of windows. Those sheets can do more
than you might think to keep cold air from
coming through the glass. At the height of
winter there could be a 20-degree difference
in temperature on the window side of the
plastic -- cold air that isn’t making it into the
room.
With cooler weather, especially at night,
you’ll be able to tell if you have air leaks at
exterior doors. Just take off your shoes and
check for cold air down at floor level. Invest
in weather stripping around the doors if you
feel a draft. Also check wall electrical plugs
to see if cold air is blowing in. Invest in plug
inserts, or buy the gasket kits that block the
whole wall plug.
David Uffington regrets that he cannot
personally answer reader questions, but will
incorporate them into his column whenever
possible. Write to him in care of King
Features Weekly Service, P.O. Box 536475,
Orlando, FL 32853-6475, or send e-mail to
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By Tresa Erickson

With all of the guns, bows, arrows, knives and
other equipment involved, there is no doubt
that hunting can be risky. Add to the mix
boats, and you can see just how dangerous
hunting can be.

When hunting in a boat, you must be careful.
You should create an itinerary stating where
you plan to go and when you will return and
leave it with someone at home. You should
bring a boat that is in good condition and

large enough for you, your passengers and
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boat, you could throw off the balance and tip
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Hunting in a boat offers many benefits, including access to areas you may not have had
otherwise. You do, however, need to take extra
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for granted and do your best to stay alert. Just
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You should treat firearms the same as you
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Unload and case them. If hunting with another person, place one unloaded firearm in
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• According to Chinese legend, Emperor Shen
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into his hot water in 2737 B.C.
• Tea comes from the Camellia sinensis plant,
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come from the same plant. Over 3,000 varieties
come from these three basic teas.
• Botanists believe that the origin of Camellia
sinensis was the northern part of Burma, and
Yunnan and Sichuan provinces of China.
• Tea plants need about 50 inches (127 cm)
of annual rainfall. They will grow into trees
if unpruned. Fengqing County of Yunnan
Province, China claims to have the world’s
oldest cultivated tea tree…3,200 years old!
• Yak butter tea is made from tea leaves, yak
butter and salt. It is a drink of Tibetans and
other minorities in Southwest China as well as
other high mountain areas, mainly in Asia.
• Tea is China’s national drink and until the
1830s, China was the only producer of tea.
• A Buddhist priest introduced tea to Japan in
the ninth century. It became a drink of royalty
when Emperor Saga encouraged its growth.
• Tea did not arrive in the United Kingdom until
the 1600s. When Catherine of Braganza of
Portugal married Charles II, the popularity of
tea increased.
• The Hudson Bay Company brought the first
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By Samantha Weaver
• It was British novelist Terry
Pratchett who made the following
extremely
sage
observation:
“Some humans would do anything
to see if it was possible to do it. If
you put a large switch in some
cave somewhere, with a sign on it
saying ‘End-of-the-World Switch.
PLEASE DO NOT TOUCH,’ the
paint wouldn’t even have time to
dry.”
• You probably don’t think much
about the fees charged at ATMs,
but maybe you should start. That
$1 here, $2.50 there really adds up
-- to more than $4 billion every
year in the U.S. alone.
• Do you sufferfrom prosopagnosia?
Unless you’ve suffered some kind
of injury to your brain, probably
not. Also known as face blindness,
prosopagnosia is the inability to
recognize familiar faces.
• The Goliath frog of West Africa
can reach up to a foot in length
and weigh more than 7 pounds.

• Wimbledon, played in
the United Kingdom and
one of the four Grand
Slam events, is the oldest
tennis tournament in the
world. Every year at the
event about 42,000 balls
are used.
• If you’re a fan of the tiny, rubbery
candy known as the Gummi Bear,
here’s some good news for you:
The world’s largest Gummi Bear
is now on the market, available
for about $30. The equivalent of
1,400 regular-size bears, the giant
candy weighs 5 pounds.
• The Campbell’s Soup paintings
by Andy Warhol have become
iconic, with collectors paying up
to $11.7 million to own one. The
very first one ever sold, however,
cost only $100. That was way back
in 1962, and the buyer was actor
Dennis Hopper.
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Thought for the Day: “Why is it
that our memory is good enough
to retain the least triviality that
happens to us, and yet not good
enough to recollect how often we
have told it to the same person?”
-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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